Sickening! – Couple banned from keeping pets for life after starving dog to death
A lesbian couple have been banned from keeping pets for life after they starved their two dogs - leaving one dead before leaving the animal's body to rot in a plastic bag. Danielle Rogers and Keeley Scott, both 19, failed to feed crossbreed Lulu and dumped her body in a park after she died. The couple also mistreated another dog, black-and-white Staffordshire bull terrier Patch, which was found to be half its normal body weight. The couple, from Worcester, were...
1,000-year-old Chinese dish set to sell for more than £10 MILLION!
A small but highly-important ceramic dish from Imperial China is expected to sell for more than £10 MILLION next month. The brush washer is around 1,000 years old and was commissioned by the imperial court during the Song dynasty. And it was made by Ru guanyao, which is one of the most revered of the Five Great Kilns used during this period. The dish, which has a diameter of just 13cm and would have been used to clean brushes, has...
Ten-year-old girl left with a broken arm after being struck by “psycho clown with a knife”
A ten-year-old girl suffered a broken arm after she was struck by a "knife-wielding" boy dressed as a killer CLOWN. Casie Morrison, ten, was playing in the park with her siblings when a figure emerged from the bushes dressed as a creepy clown wearing a Slender Man mask. Mum Kirsty, 36, told the boy - who was reportedly carrying a KNIFE - to clear off, and he fled when older boys in the park gave chase. But the boy barged...
Rise of the Progressive Web App: Is This the Death of Apps as We Know Them?
Mobile apps have existed for quite a while now; perhaps for even longer than you might think. Many might be hasty to give all credit to Apple for the rise of the app. After all, it was the 2007 launch of the iPhone which introduced apps in their current, tappable icon form. They also coined the term app and launched the first native app store. But apps have been around much longer than that. The Nokia 6110, made famous for...
In Pics – Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks and Ana de Armas for Blade Runner 2049
Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks and Ana de Armas all in attendance at the Corinthia Hotel, London as the much anticipated Blade Runner 2049 is about to be released. Ryan Gosling at the photo call for Blade Runner 2049. Court Room, Corinthia Hotel, Whitehall Place, Westminster, London 21 September 2017 Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling at the photo call for Blade Runner 2049. Court Room, Corinthia Hotel, Whitehall Place, Westminster, London 21 September 2017 Harrison Ford at the photo...
These are the governments that submit the most content removal requests to Twitter
Turkey has submitted almost 2,000 content removal requests to Twitter this year according to The Spectator Index. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been heavily criticised on the global stage for censoring the media in his country. The 2016–17 purges in Turkey brought about in reaction to the failed coup d'état have resulted in many journalists being locked up and several news outlets being shut down. Last year the president shut down an unprecedented number of television channels, radio stations and daily...
My Story – Parents were told I would never speak…now i’m an ambassador for a children’s communication charity
Elizabeth Ainge has been an ambassador and local champion for I CAN for over 15 years and is an alumna of I CAN’s Dawn House School in Nottinghamshire. I CAN is the children's communication charity. She shares her inspiring story. When I was six months old we moved as a family to Stafford. While we were there my mum took me to the health visitor because she could see that I was struggling to talk. The health visitor said, “No,...
My Story – I went from Jail for robbery…to Cambridge University
Leslie Abrokwaa, 26, served three and half years in prison for robbery as a young man before turning his life around with the help of Salmon Youth Centre. Now Leslie, who lives in Wood Green, is set to start his Youth Work and Theology degree at Cambridge University from September 2017 – a fate he describes as “a dream come true” and “nothing short of a miracle”. Speaking of his criminal past, Leslie said: “A lot of my friends were making...
Crowdfunding raises cash for UK’s first ever vegan cinema advert
Bristol-based animal campaigning charity, Viva!, have launched their biggest ever fundraising campaign - ‘Bring Hope to Millions’. Their goal is to raise £100k and place first ever pro-vegan cinema ads in front of over two million UK cinema–goers. Viva! are Europe’s largest vegan campaigning charity and have been promoting a plant-based lifestyle for over 20 years and have launched countless hard-hitting campaigns including bus adverts targeting the dairy industry, a recent nationwide demonstration targeting Tesco for obtaining meat from ‘Hogwood Horror Farm’ and created a media frenzy on foie-gras. Their patrons...